Trends in Applied Linguistics -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- 1 Introduction: The interplay of languages, cultures, and minds -- 2 First language acquisition and early cognitive development -- 2.1 First language acquisition -- 2.2 The interplay of early linguistic and cognitive development -- 2.2.1 Vygotskian accounts of early sociocultural development -- 2.2.2 Egocentric speech -- 2.2.3 Inner speech -- 2.3 Development of everyday concepts and scientific concepts -- 2.4 Learning the written form of language -- 3 Formation of concepts and plausibility structures -- 3.1 From unmediated to mediated thought -- 3.2 Concepts, prototypes, and frames -- 3.3 Schemata and stereotypes -- 3.4 Conceptual metaphors -- 3.5 Linguistic relativity -- 3.5.1 Strong and weak versions of linguistic relativity -- 4 Language and the intersubjective construction of meaning -- 4.1 Word and utterance -- 4.2 Speech genre -- 4.3 Genre -- 4.4 Narrative -- 4.5 Discourse and positioning -- 4.6 Intersubjectivity -- 4.7 Blending spaces -- 5 Imposing structure on language-in-use: From language philosophy to discourse analysis -- 5.1 Ordinary language philosophy -- 5.1.1 Language games -- 5.1.2 Speech act theory -- 5.1.3 The cooperative principle and maxims of conversation -- 5.2 Some linguistic approaches to communication -- 5.2.1 Communicative competence and contextualization cues -- 5.2.2 Analyzing discourse -- 5.3 Activity theory -- 6 The dynamics of identity -- 6.1 Personal identity -- 6.2 Discursive negotiation of identity -- 6.3 Narrative identity -- 6.4 Social and cultural identity -- 6.5 Ascribed identities, role, and voice -- 6.6 Hybrid identities -- 7 The complexities of culture -- 7.1 Culture as distributed knowledge -- 7.2 Reading culture as text -- 7.3 Culture and social practice -- 7.4 Culture, social practice, and the subject.

8 The interplay of cultures: Constructs of interculture -- 8.1 Hybridity -- 8.2 The third space -- 8.3 Translating cultures -- 8.4 Intercultural understanding -- 9 Fostering intercultural competence in the second language classroom -- 9.1 The role of the first language in second language learning -- 9.2 Translating and interlanguage -- 9.3 Metaphoric competence -- 9.4 Efforts of stabilizing linguistic and sociocultural context -- 9.4.1 Conceptual -- 9.4.2 Sociolinguistic -- 9.5 Learning culture in the zone of proximal development -- 9.6 Second language learning and its effects on learners' minds -- 10 Mediating and assessing intercultural competence in the L2 classroom -- 10.1 Critique of Bennett's (1993) developmental model of intercultural sensitivity -- 10.2 Mediating intercultural competence in the L2 classroom - A model of progressive principles -- 10.3 The challenge of assessing intercultural competence -- 11 Conclusion -- References -- Name index -- Subject index.